When I was back in Australia for the Christmas/New Year break, my Dad and I had a day up in the tall timber mountain ash forest east of Melbourne, at one of our favourite locations – the Ada Tree and the surrounding forest that was once home to sawmills and timber tramway lines in the… Continue reading Ada Tree & the timber tramways
Category: Bushwalking in Victoria
Tackling the Tanglefoot Track
Today Shewey and I walked the Tanglefoot Track, which is a bushwalking track that runs along Mt Tanglefoot, near Toolangi and Healesville. The forest here is largely mountain ash, with beautiful myrtle beech and tree fern rainforest pockets in the gullies. The route we took was a 16km loop, starting at the Wirrawilla rainforest walk,… Continue reading Tackling the Tanglefoot Track
The Mustering Flat High Beam Society
Mustering Flat is an alpine plain in the Baw Baw National Park, an easy walk in from the St Gwinear car park north of Erica. It’s one of our favourite places to get away for a bushwalk. There’s a good campsite in the snow gums on the side of the plain, and we took a… Continue reading The Mustering Flat High Beam Society
Mt St Leonard in the heat
Although it got to 37 degrees today, I went for a walk with Shewey and Janet up Mt St Leonard, a mountain in the Yarra Ranges near Healesville. Mt St Leonard is a little over 1,000 metres high, and the walk up ascends around 800 metres. On a hot day, that’s a good work out! … Continue reading Mt St Leonard in the heat